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Two new PhD opportunities are available at EPCC as part of the VECTA programme. This £17m EPSRC Strategic Prosperity Partnership is developing the modelling capabilities to virtually design and certify the next generation of aircraft engines. edin.ac/4oWIB9Q
EPCC's Cirrus supercomputer with an image of winter mountains across the cabinets.
EPCC's refreshed Cirrus service for academia and industry has launched! It offers new resources for CPU-based HPC use and increases the flexibility of the service. There are now more ways to interact with Cirrus too. Read more in Andy Turner's article: edin.ac/4pwKPhq
A new partnership between the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and EPCC will enable closer collaboration between the two organisations, with a focus on the effective delivery of large-scale compute infrastructure to inform national approaches.
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Was great to visit @ncar-cisl.bsky.social last week in Boulder and Cheyenne, we have a centre to centre collaboration via the #EPSRC #CONTINENTS project and they have some really impressive facilities and work. Great discussions ahead of then travelling to St. Louis for #SC25 this week
Steve Dean from HPE kicking off the “Sustainable Supercomputing” workshop at #SC25 - the room is pretty packed already, but there are a few more seats in room 264 if you want to join. Lots of interesting presentations still to come!
That's the @epcc.bsky.social #SC25 booth set up. Come and find us at #2836
The @epcc.bsky.social #SC25 booth starting to go up, hanging sign and all
Gateway Arch National Park, St. Louis, MO, USA by Kenny Nguyễn
We're counting down to the opening of #SC25! To find out what's happening at the UK's first National Supercomputing Centre, find us at Booth 2832 or across the programme. See our daily schedule for details: edin.ac/47zG2nK
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EPCC colleagues produce a range of high quality scientific visualisations. In this article, Sébastien Lemaire gives an overview of three recent examples, each to be presented at the #SC25 conference "Art in HPC" sessions. edin.ac/3WRk2Qd
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Our Cirrus service for academia and industry is being refreshed. The CPU-based Cirrus EX4000, with over 73,000 AMD compute cores linked by an HPE Slingshot 11 interconnect, will be available soon - see edin.ac/4pZb6W4. Until then, here’s EPCC Director Mark Parsons building an AMD chip in Lego!
Colourful wires on the Cerebras CS-3 supercomputer
EPCC has won EU & UK Gov funding to establish and operate the €10m (£8.6m) UK AI Factory Antenna. This initiative will help organisations increase literacy in the technology and its use, and show how it can help increase productivity and deliver growth. edin.ac/3WzDaSx
Scylla HPC testbed. Photo by Sebastien Lemaire, EPCC.
Unified Shared Memory (USM) models simplify accelerator programming. In his article, Paul Bartholomew shares his research into the cost of using them: edin.ac/4mqsfFf
It's been a busy week, lots of great content and loads of great people, but #IEEE #CLUSTER 2025 is now over, bring on the next one in 2026 #HPC @epcc.bsky.social
Getting ready to start #CLUSTER25 IEEE CLUSTER 2025 in Edinburgh today. First day is workshops and tutorials.
Crane lifts generator from lorry bed.
It's a busy time at EPCC as we prepare for the first ever total power down of the Advanced Computing Facility. EPCC's Director of HPC Systems explains why we are taking this essential action, which will include the pausing of all our HPC services for the duration of the outage. edin.ac/4lPKTGq
Montage promoting IEEE Cluster 2025, Edinburgh, from 2-5 September
We’re getting ready to host IEEE Cluster in Edinburgh next week. Among the highlights will be keynotes from Natalia Vassilieva (Cerebras Systems); Rosa Badia (@bsc-cns.bsky.social) and Garth Wells (University of Cambridge). Talk abstracts: edin.ac/41qm0K9
📢 [FINAL] Call for Papers for the REX-IO 2025 Workshop! 📢
REX-IO 2025 is still accepting submissions (short & full papers) and your high-quality work can make a big difference!
Final deadline: July 25, 2025 11:59PM AoE. 🤩 📜 🦖
More information: sites.google.com/view/rexio/
#HPC #supercomputing
Image shows (left to right) Prof. Sir Peter Mathieson, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, with Feryal Clark, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Prof. Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC and Dean of Research Computing.
We are delighted to announce that EPCC has been named the UK’s first National Supercomputing Centre. This significant step is a huge endorsement of the University and its future as a world-leader in supercomputing and AI: edin.ac/4eVtnyx
With 200 Petabytes of data, stretching back more than 1M light years, and capturing 37 Bn objects, it's going to be a busy time for @lsstuk.bsky.social and @epcc.bsky.social . My favourite image, so far, is this one of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae, formed from 678 individual images! #supercomputing
A mall section of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's total view of the Virgo cluster. Visible are two spiral galaxies (lower right), three merging galaxies (upper right), several groups of distant galaxies, many stars in the Milky Way galaxy and more. Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be revealed today. This image of the Virgo cluster, which incudes 2 spiral galaxies and 3 merging galaxies, gives a sneak preview of what we can expect. Read how EPCC is supporting Rubin's Legacy Survey of Space and Time: edin.ac/40f1n2F
Our #PASC25 paper on ASiMoV-CCS, a new #CFD solver written in modern #Fortran as part of a collaboration between @epcc.bsky.social & Rolls-Royce, has now be published: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #HPC
Rubin Observatory stands on Cerro Pachón in Chile against a sky full of star trails in this long exposure night sky image. Credit: Hernan Stockebrand.
On 23 June 2025 the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be revealed to the world in a ‘First Look’ event. A collaboration between EPCC and the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy will be central to the decade of great science that will follow.
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I've really enjoyed #PASC25 this week in Brugg, where there have been many insightful talks. The highlight for me was our mini-symposium on moving to more sustainable #HPC (as part of #CONTINENTS) and I spoke to Maria from
@cscsch.bsky.social about the session youtu.be/-PGgfDSEWUs?...
Weronika from @epcc.bsky.social talks in the sustainable training mini symposium at #PASC25 about some of the activities going on in @epcc.bsky.social , and specifically #UNIVERSE_HPC
Goodbye #PASC25 & Brugg, it’s been great!
@paulbcfd.bsky.social , #CFD expert @epcc.bsky.social presents ASiMoV-CCS at #PASC25 which is a new #CFD solver providing improved opportunities for running at scale. A great example of using modern #Fortran
@micheleweiland.bsky.social talks about sustainable supercomputing @epcc.bsky.social , including clock frequency on #ARCHER2, malleable jobs, novel hardware and teaching. At #PASC25, more details on our @cerebrassystems.bsky.social systems tomorrow afternoon by Justs as part of #CONTINENTS
Fortran is *never* a joke! 😍
